The pitch is a Desso Grassmaster - from Desso who are a carpet manufacturer. I suspect the groundsman is leaving because he's been demoted to using a Dyson instead of a mower.

I'd be more concerned if they were going to be hosting the Horse of the Year Show how they used to do at the old Wembley - that did play havoc with the pitch. The League Cup Final in 1969 a week after the Horse of the Year show!

Or Greaves making his debut for us at Maine Road and scoring 2 in our 5-1 win.Perhaps if the pitch roughs up a bit we can put 5 past the City All-Stars!

Note in that photo, the squared look of the ground even though it has a running track.In the front of the large stand opposite, you can see the areas that have fully retractable seating,(the grey seated areas near the front) these cover the track and can be easily removed for athletics.This is roughly what some of us were hoping for in the new stadium, albeit on a mach larger scale.

Saracens also have a bit more in common with us, that not having complete control of their ground. Local residents have decreed only a certain amount of events can take place at Allianz Park per year. Hence the reason they've utilised the derby game against Quins, as a means of getting big crowds at Wembley and now our place.

Even when they progress in Europe they can only host one additional game past the group stages

So Reading & Bristol City have their pitch in good nick despite full seasons of rugby & football. Yet our state of the art pitch will get torn to shreds by 80 minutes. Ok. Right, well yeah you've won me over with that logic

Coventry, Wycombe, and Reading are all sharing with a rugby team. Chelsea want to move to Twickenham. Loftus Road used to have a team playing there and London Irish are supposed to move into the new Brentford stadium.

Can't really see one match affecting us in any way. Hey, I might even buy a ticket myself.

theobaldtiger wrote:Can't really see one match affecting us in any way. Hey, I might even buy a ticket myself.

This might be one of those events where WHUFC members and season ticket holders could be offered discounted tickets. For previous years the Saracen matches at Wembley have had group-on deals, deals for serving army/navy/RAF members and family and other discounts.